Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gastonia, NC ranks #4,263 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 26 patents from 22 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gastonia, NC include Invue Security Products, RTX (Raytheon), Little Engine. That works out to 0.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–22 of 22 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 A. Reneau Van Landingham, Jr. Invue Security Products 2
1 Joseph F. Englehart RTX (Raytheon) 2
1 Franz W. Kellar Little Engine 2
1 Tammy Horne Lukas Hydraulik Gmbh 2
#5 Tina G. Michaels 1
#5 Nicholas Buccola Hunter Douglas 1
#5 William C. Herter Carlson Software 1
#5 Joseph D. Fickling Albemarle 1
#5 Margarita Estrada Siemens Energy 1
#5 Paul Dellinger Gulfstream Aerospace 1
#5 Robert H. Ferguson Mann+Hummel Filtration Technology Us 1
#5 Xiaosong Wu Dsm Ip Assets B.V. 1
#5 Nick C. Buccola Hunter Douglas 1
#5 Christopher Jay Woltermann Fmc 1
#5 Timothy James Rohm Banyan Licensing L.L.C. 1
#5 Nickolas C. Buccola, Jr. Hunter Douglas 1
#5 Franz Austen Kellar Little Engine 1
#5 John P. Baker Georgia-Pacific Nonwovens 1
#5 Britton Lemmon Tabor 1
#5 Martin Stamm Continental Automotive Gmbh 1
#5 Marina Yakovleva Fmc 1
#5 Prakash Thyaga Palepu Fmc 1

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